Police arrest one of two masked suspects in Walmart robberies in San Leandro, Fremont

By Natalie Neysa Alund

Bay Area News Group

Posted:
01/10/2013 09:22:26 AM PST

Updated:
01/11/2013 09:24:02 PM PST

SAN LEANDRO -- Police have arrested one of two masked gunmen who brazenly robbed a Walmart during daytime hours last month and are searching for the second suspect they say is also responsible for another armed robbery at a Fremont Walmart.

Dominque Martin, 21, of Fremont, was arrested in connection with a Dec. 3 armed heist at the Walmart in the 1900 block of Davis Street in San Leandro, Lt. Randy Brandt said.

Officers were dispatched at 2:53 p.m. to the business, just east of Doolittle Drive after multiple reports of a robbery in progress at the business, Brandt said. Witnesses told officers that two suspects who were wearing bandannas over their faces stormed the store, demanded money at gunpoint then fled the store with an undisclosed amount of cash. No one was injured in the heist.

Just one month later, on Jan. 3, a second armed robbery took place at a Fremont Walmart.

At 9:12 p.m. two men -- whom police identified as Martin and 21-year-old Melvin Lamont Landry Jr. -- stormed the store at 40580 Albrae St. at gunpoint and robbed it. No one was injured in that robbery either, police said.

Police said they believe the duo were responsible for both armed robberies and on Jan. 4, officers arrested Martin after a 2002 black BMW, reportedly used in the robbery, was found by Oakland police officers.

Police have since obtained a warrant for Landry's arrest. He is known to frequent Oakland and Sacramento.

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Anyone with information about Landry's whereabouts is asked to call police at 510-577-3237 or 510-790-6934. Anonymous tips may also be sent to police by texting SLPD and the tip to 847411. Anonymous tips can also be submitted at the department's website, www.sanleandro.org/depts/pd/at.asp.